what did you drink it "over"? i have to know.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 25 December 2016 04:17 (seven years ago) link
one of papa john's finest pies
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Sunday, 25 December 2016 09:33 (seven years ago) link
you had a papa john's on xmas eve? is everything okay?
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 25 December 2016 09:42 (seven years ago) link
yeah I had a bottle of Trolltunga a couple of days ago and thought it a v good example of the form
drank a Blacklight Banana by Siren yesterday which is a sweetish imperial stout. claims to feature coffee beans "stored in bourbon barrels" pre-roasting which I struggle to believe would make any discernable difference tbh. decent anyway
― Vlogs from other credible bands such as Shed Seven (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 25 December 2016 10:39 (seven years ago) link
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, December 25, 2016 9:42 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
night of the 22nd!!
last night we were lazy after present-wrapping so had crisps with dips lol
and ya the blacklight banana will have been appreciated, it's not bad at all
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Sunday, 25 December 2016 10:48 (seven years ago) link
got a big haul of mostly american and scandinavian beer at an off licence in dublin yesterday. to-ol's christmas stout is nice, slight note of orange and cardamon but mainly just a good winter drink. have a few mikkellers and some seasonal sierra nevadas also - might be a basic admission but i love the sierra nevada christmas beer.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 25 December 2016 11:52 (seven years ago) link
At the Toll Gate, Turnpike Lane, last night: Long Man Old Man old ale. Very good. I've realised that I'm more or less certain to love anything calling itself 'old ale' (whereas, for example, anything called 'ruby ale' I tend not to like very much).
― dubmill, Sunday, 25 December 2016 12:37 (seven years ago) link
Partizan's saison kriek one of the best of its kind I've had recently. tt bought a bottle the other day and we're drinking it now - extremely refreshing, quite dry, really noticeable if understated sour kick, fruit very subtle. Low alcohol content might raise suspicions but this is pulled off very smartly
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Tuesday, 10 January 2017 22:24 (seven years ago) link
not UK per se but I am looking at a Mikkeller Spontanberliner w/ Passion Fruit and I wholly recommend etc etc
― Headphone Jack (seandalai), Sunday, 19 February 2017 01:06 (seven years ago) link
https://scontent.flhr2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/16797653_1381153738617820_5068002515587798665_o.jpg?oh=af2156377b04e0017b1d0e20a762b947&oe=5935AC31
Wild Beer's new brewery mockup looks like the postapocalyptic version of Spurs' corporate hospitality area
― Vlogs from other credible bands such as Shed Seven (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 23 February 2017 13:32 (seven years ago) link
never noticed before that their logo is EVIL OVERLORD
― Headphone Jack (seandalai), Thursday, 23 February 2017 13:33 (seven years ago) link
pity that one lone ghost sitting on the edge of the fire pit
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Thursday, 23 February 2017 13:48 (seven years ago) link
isn't drinking beer supposed to be fun
― Headphone Jack (seandalai), Thursday, 23 February 2017 13:57 (seven years ago) link
it looks like a community centre.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Thursday, 23 February 2017 14:04 (seven years ago) link
a lot of the places craft beer breweries choose to decorate or host are really awful, like crappy mdf tables etc. give me a pub with a few good taps anytime.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Thursday, 23 February 2017 14:05 (seven years ago) link
when it's a little venture in a repurposed quasi-industrial space then I can appreciate ramshackle furnishings but the pretentious back to clean and hard basics realness of brew dog frinstance is a fucking atrocity
― ogmor, Thursday, 23 February 2017 14:26 (seven years ago) link
i like the purity bar in birmingham
― nxd, Thursday, 23 February 2017 14:34 (seven years ago) link
'the english restaurant' in spitalfields is my new favourite pub of all time
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Sunday, 5 March 2017 22:36 (seven years ago) link
such a lovely place
they have many belgian classics - i'm currently drinking a bottle of the straffe hendrik quadrupel which i bought at the barman's recommendation - it's excellent and if we're extending this thread to the continent then i'd advise trying it (should you be a fan of strong, complex ale)
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Sunday, 5 March 2017 22:38 (seven years ago) link
Beavertown's Tempus project is shaping up very nicely indeed! Screw Tropigamma, this is where it's at. Their Moonshiner berliner weisse and their El Mariachi gose are both *excellent* - refreshing and intensely flavoured. Just get the price down next time
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Monday, 13 March 2017 23:54 (seven years ago) link
Fierce Beer from Scotland have done a nice tropical sour, the Tropical Tart - refreshing and authentically tangy with good fruit and a nice nutty aftertaste. Also pretty cheap as these things go
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Tuesday, 14 March 2017 22:11 (seven years ago) link
Thornbridge are far too up and down for my liking, although Love Among The Ruins and Days of Creation were truly great sours the only beers of theirs I'd seek out are the raspberry Imperial stout, and Serpent.
From aldo's megapost upthread. I can confirm that Days Of Creation, a prizewinning lambic red, is astonishing. They've more or less matched Rodenbach, except with notes of stilton and (as my friend noticed) strawberry supplanting the earthier cherry of Grand Cru. Cost me £17 for a bottle but worth it tbh as a one-off. Now do it again but cheaper. One of the best beers I've ever drunk
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 00:21 (seven years ago) link
Now, in a stunning pvmic, I'm about to tuck into Timmermans' pumpkin special :D
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 00:22 (seven years ago) link
Oh - raspberries, not strawberries! xp
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 00:25 (seven years ago) link
Too many ales are too strong %. Something like 4.5% should be the max. Below 4% is what it should be. It's so rare to find bottled ales that low today. I'm not sure why they're cranking it up so high. Belgian ales is a slightly different affair, but english ales are session ales, I'm baffled by the 6% ales I see.
― orientmammal, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 00:45 (seven years ago) link
there've been strong English ales since almost literally forever though?
― Vlogs from other credible bands such as Shed Seven (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 08:27 (seven years ago) link
Yes, the sub-4% standard is a legacy of the first (and second?) world war I think. Stronger ales respond better to bottling: the pasteurisation process knocks the body/flavour/mothfeel/whatever out of most things below 4%, so you end up with thin, bland beer. For sub-4% to work, it's really got to be unpasteurised on draught.
― mahb, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 09:20 (seven years ago) link
I agree with that, but tbf there are some p decent low ABV beers about these days, purposely brewed with flavour in mind, e.g. Redemption's Trinity
― Neil S, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 09:37 (seven years ago) link
early 19th century stouts were often over 7 percent.
― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 17:39 (seven years ago) link
Drinking Love Among The Ruins right now for tt's 29th. Thornbridge, it is safe to say, have cracked the code
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Saturday, 25 March 2017 00:20 (seven years ago) link
Also, she is 'doing' my eyebrows right now what's going on
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Saturday, 25 March 2017 00:21 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/uAT8T6l.jpg
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Saturday, 25 March 2017 00:37 (seven years ago) link
get a haircut ya hippie
― plums (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 26 March 2017 23:03 (seven years ago) link
back to london, and we've got ourselves all manner of beers to get through, starting with Chorlton's 'summer/blanc double sour' and 'sour death' ipa....holy shit, why haven't I drunk their stuff before? it's lethal
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Tuesday, 28 March 2017 22:29 (seven years ago) link
Sour Death about as sour as any hoppy beer has a right to be, and the summer sour is....a concentrated blast of malevolence, more pls
― an uptempo Pop/Hip Hop mentality (imago), Tuesday, 28 March 2017 22:30 (seven years ago) link
let's rep the Marble Brewery of Manchester and their Sister Agnes cherry sour effort - pitched halfway between a Flemish Red and a barley wine, with most of the good points of either
― imago, Sunday, 16 April 2017 20:16 (seven years ago) link
I suspect I'd prefer the ether tbh.
― Tim, Sunday, 16 April 2017 20:20 (seven years ago) link
(But yes I'm pretty keen on Marble beer, in the main)
siren's 'acid jam' perhaps the first siren to really hold my attention
― imago, Friday, 5 May 2017 21:17 (six years ago) link
Imo it's pretty astonishing but a really difficult drink.
― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Friday, 5 May 2017 23:25 (six years ago) link
Had Beavertown's Brose - a rose-derived sour - at the brewery the weekend before last. AVOID.
― pickety third (stevie), Saturday, 6 May 2017 11:41 (six years ago) link
The blood orange IPA, however, is even nicer off the tap.
― pickety third (stevie), Saturday, 6 May 2017 11:42 (six years ago) link
I've a bottle of Brose but haven't summoned the courage to open it yet.
― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Saturday, 6 May 2017 12:54 (six years ago) link
There's a limited run of Hamerton Earl Grey Black IPA out there right now and it's excellent.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 6 May 2017 13:02 (six years ago) link
So I drank the Brose. Kind of weird tasting, not as sour as I'd have liked and the rose was oddly sweet. Like a massively inferior Acid Jam.
― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Saturday, 6 May 2017 22:25 (six years ago) link
WBC's Yadokai effort has finally been drunk then...it's very good. Also faintly redolent of Acid Jam, but obviously with a sake-meets-abbey-beer weight to it all. I wouldn't call it subtle, but it's arresting.
― imago, Saturday, 13 May 2017 20:42 (six years ago) link
― Matt DC, Saturday, May 6, 2017 1:02 PM (three weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
enjoying this right now. it's really good and i say that as a sceptic of anything that isn't sour these days. in fact i prefer it to the beer tt is drinking right now, siren's new grapefruit sour. she disagrees. but what is indisputable is that siren won't come close to topping 'acid jam' for a good long while
― imago, Thursday, 1 June 2017 22:09 (six years ago) link
we also have the brosé lying in wait, like some dismal portent of oversweetened doom
― imago, Thursday, 1 June 2017 22:10 (six years ago) link
my mouth puckered just reading that, lj
― Who's puttin' sponge in the zings I once zung (stevie), Friday, 2 June 2017 22:07 (six years ago) link
"brosé"!!! is that pink wine for dudes????
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 3 June 2017 09:32 (six years ago) link